Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
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Author(s): J. M. Seddon and J. D. Gale
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 0854046321
Format: softback
161pp
Price: £9.95
Review Date: 31 January 2002
Review: This undergraduate textbook covers the basic results of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics that are needed by first-year chemistry students. It introduces the thermodynamic quantities and relationships and develops them to enable students to apply thermodynamical analysis to chemical problems, keeping the mathematics to a minimum. Chapters cover: the Laws of Thermodynamics; heat capacity, enthalpy and thermochemistry; free energy; phase transition; chemical equilibrium; microscopic an macroscopic properties; the partial function; an ideal gas; and statistical mechanics and equilibrium. Worked problems are included in each chapter.